Does public infrastructure affect economic activity?

Chandra, Amitabh; Thompson, Eric C.

doi:10.1016/s0166-0462(00)00040-5

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“…This pattern is similar to Chandra and Thompson's (2000) finding that U.S. counties that were next to counties through which U.S. highways were constructed were adversely affected. Chandra and Thompson (2000) described their results within a theoretical model of spatial competition whereby regional highway investments aid the nationally-oriented manufacturing industry and lead to the reallocation of economic activity in more regionally-oriented industries.…”

Section: Base Pre-post Estimations Of Gq Upgradessupporting

confidence: 79%

“…These studies complement the larger literature on the United States (e.g., Fernald 1998, Chandra and Thompson 2000, Michaels 2008, Duranton and Turner 2012, Baum-Snow 2007, Lahr et al 2005 1 , those undertaken in historical settings (e.g., Donaldson 2010, Donaldson andHornbeck 2012), and those focusing on other developing or emerging economies (e.g., Brown et al 2008, Ulimwengu et al 2009). A related literature considers non-transportation infrastructure investments in developing economies (e.g., Pande 2007, Dinkelman 2011).…”

Section: Section 1: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 54%

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Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing

Ghani¹,

Grover²,

Kerr³

2012

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Abstract:We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal districts based upon their distance from the highway system. We find several positive effects for nonnodal districts located 0-10 km from GQ that are not present in districts 10-50 km away, most notably higher entry rates and increases in plant productivity. These results are not present for districts located on another major highway system, the North-South East-West corridor (NS-EW). Improvements for portions of the NS-EW system were planned to occur at the same time as GQ but were subsequently delayed.Additional tests show that the GQ project's effect operates in part through a stronger sorting of landintensive industries from nodal districts to non-nodal districts located on the GQ network. The GQ upgrades further helped spread economic activity to moderate-density districts and intermediate cities.

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Section: Base Pre-post Estimations Of Gq Upgradessupporting

confidence: 79%

Section: Section 1: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 54%

Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing

Ghani¹,

Grover²,

Kerr³

2012

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“…Baum-Snow (2007a) was the first to provide convincing empirical evidence that highways caused suburbanization, as predicted by this model. Later studies have considered the impact of highways on the growth of metropolitan areas and employment (Duranton and Turner, 2012), as well as on increasing economic performance in peripheral areas (Banerjee et al, 2012;Chandra and Thompson, 2000;Michaels, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, highway assignment was considered as random within the set of possible trajectories that connect the largest cities (Banerjee et al, 2012;Chandra and Thompson, 2000;Fajgelbaum and Redding, 2014;Michaels, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There is substantial evidence that highways induce suburbanization, reduce population densities in central cities and increase population levels and economic performance of peripheral areas (Baum-Snow, 2007a,b;Chandra and Thompson, 2000;Duranton and Turner, 2012;Garcia-López et al, 2015). However, these predictions may change considerably where urban sprawl is bounded by land development restrictions, prevalent in many cities around the world.…”

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The Impact of Highways on Population Redistribution: The Role of Land Development Restrictions

2017

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We study the role of land development restrictions for the effects of highway expansion on the spatial distribution of population. We demonstrate that these restrictions strongly interfered with the effects of highways in the Netherlands. Introducing an IV approach to address endogenous interaction variables, our findings show that new highways accelerated population growth in peripheral areas, but had no such effect in central cities and suburban municipalities. We find that due to development restrictions near larger cities, the highway expansion caused a 'leapfrog' pattern, in which suburban growth skipped developmentrestricted areas and expanded into farther located peripheral areas.

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Discrimination of Inhabitant Satisfaction with the Public Infrastructure Between Region and Various Income Groups in Punjab, Pakistan

Hassan

Iqbal

Hassan

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The Importance of New Technologies and Entrepreneurship in Business Development: In the Context of Economic Diversity in Develo

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In the prevailing circumstances, an analysis of residents’ satisfaction with the quality of public infrastructure is essential in determining the degree of contentment of society. The aim of this study is to determine the degree of serenity of the inhabitant with the different public infrastructure provided for their use. This assessment is based on different regional and income classes in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. The stratified random sampling technique is used to explain such regional economic segregation by selecting 14 out of 36 districts in Punjab, Pakistan. A total of 1500 people from large, medium and small districts are interviewed. Multinomial logistic regression and study of the Chi-square tests were adopted. We see that the satisfaction of the population with the facilities (education, health, electricity, transport, water and sanitation) varies considerably within the region and the income classes. The government must therefore adopt a realistic strategy for balanced growth between the various regions and implement a labor-intensive project in small districts.

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Does public infrastructure affect economic activity?

Cited by 438 publications

References 20 publications

Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing

Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing

The Impact of Highways on Population Redistribution: The Role of Land Development Restrictions

Discrimination of Inhabitant Satisfaction with the Public Infrastructure Between Region and Various Income Groups in Punjab, Pakistan

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